TEACHING OUTLINE

UNIT 1C: AT THE MOULIN ROUGE
GRAMMAR: THE PRESENT CONTINUOUS

I. CHECK-UP
- Ask the students to review what they studied in the previous period through some pictures.
- Try to remember the vocabulary in the previous part to answer the questions.
Student 1:


Sudent 2:
1. My bother is a teacher.
He _________ Maths at a high school
a. teach b. teaches c. teachs
Ans: b
2. What is your job?
Ans: I’m a student
3. What is this language?

Ans: English
4. The verb TO BE in the present tense ?
Ans: Am / is / are
KEY: He is teaching English
II. LEAD-IN

Describe the picture




Answer:
They are at the café
They are drinking
The women are wearing skirts and blouses.
The men are wearing shirts and trousers.
I think the men are talking about the women.
The women are looking at the men.
III. PRESENTATION
Grammar
1.1. Forms:
Ex: She is walking Present continuous
He is running am/is/are + V-ing
We’re learning the present continuous

I am ‘m play+ing
He
She is ‘s sing+ing
It
We
You are ‘re write+ing writing
They run+ing running
* Note: Spelling rules
Verbs ending in Y:
Play playing
Study studying
Verbs ending in E:
Live living
Come coming
BUT: - die dying
- lie lying
Verbs ending in a consonant following by a short vowel
Get getting
Stop stopping
Run running

Affirmative
I’m playing

He’s playing
She’s playing
It’s playing

They’re playing
You’re playing
We’re playing

Negative
I’m not playing

He isn’t playing
She isn’t playing
It isn’t playing

They aren’t playing
You aren’t playing
We aren’t playing

Questions
Am I playing?

Is he playing?
Is she playing?
Is it playing?

Are they playing?
Are you playing?
Are we playing?


1.2. Usages:


Things are happening now, at this moment.
Ex: My brother is working in South America
A: What are you doing now?
B: We’re studying English
* With exclamative verbs:
Look! The bus is coming.
Listen! Someone is talking in my room
Please, don’t make noise! I’m studying
The simple present (SP) Vs present continuous (PC):
Ex: He likes apples hobby (SP)
He’s eating an apple temporary action (PC)
She gets up at 6 o’clock habit (SP)
She’s getting up at 7 o’clock this week (PC)
Some verbs are not normally used in the present continuous:
Have (possessive), like, want, need, remember, forget, belong to ...
Ex: I need to talk to you now
NOT: I’m needing to talk to you now.
1.3. Exercise: Underline the correct form of the verb.
1. In the picture the men wear/ are wearing hats
2. In some countries women often wear/ are wearing hats to weddings.
3. Karina usually sits/ is sitting at the front of the class
4. Today she sits/ is sitting at the back
KEY: 1. are wearing
2. wear
3. sits
4. is sitting
2. Practice
2.1. Activity 1: INDIVIDUAL WORK
1. Hey! you / stand on my foot.
a. Hey! You stand on my foot b. Hey! You are standing on my foot
c. Hey! You standing on my foot
2. they/ play well today.
a. They plays well today b. They’re play well today
c. They are playing well today
3. what/ you / study right now?
a.What do you study right now. b. What you study right now?
c. What are you studying right now?
4. we/ think / of you.
a.We think of you. b. We’re thinking of you
c. We are think of you.
KEY: 1. b 2. c 3. c 4. b
2.2 Activity 2: NOUGHTS AND CROSSES GAMES (GROUP WORK)
1. Is the sentence correct or incorrect?
They’re siting in the garden.
- Incorrect